Page:Magdalen by J S Machar.pdf/126

 decent, exemplary woman, properly managing her house, caring well for her husband, and bringing up her children as well as her mother had brought up hers; and she grows stout, and is honored by the whole town.

Old loves of the spring of my life, my faded reminiscences! You are wretched, patrician girls!

Young bureaucrats, sons of the townsmen, who were helping their fathers in their estates, or in their stares, and whose houses declared themselves for the ruling party, were busy amusing the young ladies. JiřiJiří [sic], with the composure of an older man, strolled by the side of the burgomistress. The burgomistress was retailing to him all her spicy stories about all the known and unknown people of the other party, Jiří laughed from time to time, like any civil person, or said something to her, but he was in the meantime thinking of his mill and estate.

He had departed from his life at Prague